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CREATIVE JOB TITLE GUIDELINES

1/23/2020

 
 “A job title is the cheapest form of compensation.” 
“My manager encouraged me to come up with a more creative job title.” 
“We just use what we’ve always had.” 

I’ve heard it all when it comes to picking a job title. 
In 2009, when a lot of the first creative job titles appeared, I took one of the jobs. Social Media Ninja. I swear I’m not making that up. My team made a lot of jokes about what my next role could be – Samurai? Warrior? Sensei? The title was fun, but it left a lot of essential things to the imagination. Things like what I did and what my next job should be, for example. 
See, back then, job titles were one of the first employer brand activation strategies. While companies were starting to understand how to tell their stories, they were under the impression that creative job titles would make their jobs “stand out.”

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